15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
MODELING AND CONTROL OF 3D EYE MOVEMENT WITH MUSCULOTENDON DYNAMICS
Ashoka D. Polpitiya* Bijoy K. Ghosh* Clyde F. Martin**
Lawrence Schovanec**
* Department of Systems Science and Mathematics
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
** Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Texas Tech University, USA

Recent anatomical studies of extraocular muscles (EOM) demonstrate the stability of muscle paths. This is due to the fact that each rectus EOM passes through a pulley consisting of an encircling ring or sleeve of collagen. In this paper, the EOMs are modeled using the Hill type musculotendon complex and the effect of extraocular pulleys are studied. The model proposed by Martin and Schovanec in 1999, for horizontal eye movement has been used as a basic starting point. The extraocular pulleys are then introduced and analyzed mainly to study how Listing’s law is enforced and how it implements an oculomotor plant which appears commutative to the brain.
Keywords: Listing’s law, musculotendon dynamics, pulleys
Session slot T-Fr-A02: Dynamic Modelling in Biological Systems/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing